Drupal 8 Essential Training: 2 Building Out Your Website

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3/15/2016

Your Drupal site is built. Now what? Web design doesn't stop once the website is launched. Learn how to build out your Drupal site to better fit your visitors' needs.

In these tutorials, Tom Geller helps new Drupal designers change the layout and design elements of their sites, control visitor interactions (including comments), arrange content in user-friendly "views," and expand the site's capabilities beyond what's available in core Drupal with Drupal modules. In all the steps you'll learn best practices to ensure your sites remain streamlined, secure, and up to date.

If you want to start from the beginning and create your Drupal site from scratch, check out Drupal 8 Essentials 1: Getting Started.

Topics include:

Grouping content into categories

Managing comments

Adding discussion groups

Customizing fields and image styles

Adjusting menus and navigation to help users

Adding new features with Drupal modules

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 38m

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- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Tom Geller.Welcome to the second courseof Drupal 8 Essentials: Building Out Your Website.This course assumes you either have Drupal already installedor you know how to install it yourself.It also assumes that you have all the skills taughtin the first course of Drupal 8 Essentials: Getting Started.You'll see how to prevent usersfrom inserting malicious programming code into your site.We'll greatly expand the range of content on your site,as well as how it's categorized, presented, and delivered.

You'll also see how to organize contentinto logical structures known as books,and you'll see how to make it easier for usersto move around on your sitewith menus and content categories.This is the second Drupal 8 Essentials course.They're arranged in a sequenceto lead you to complete managementof a dynamic, attractive, full-featured Drupal website.I hope you enjoyDrupal 8 Essentials: Building Out Your Website.